Blog Post Assignment 6

1. Parents tend to pressure their children because they want them to have a good future.  Most parents expect their children to have a better life than they did, and because of this they end up putting a lot of pressure on their children without realizing the true effect of it. Parents believe that by applying pressure on their children, their children will put in more effort.
2. Parents and children have conflicts that mostly relate to the child's life or opinions. Many children disagree with what their parents want out of them which causes a lot of anger and disagreements. Conflicts such as the child's grades, curfew, and friends can be an example.
3. People can be anything they want to be as long as they are focused and believe that it is possible. There are many possibilities and ways for a person to do whatever they want to do or become the person they want to be.  However, their are some characteristics that could prevent people from doing what they want, such as peer pressure, self doubt, and lack of necessities.
4. There is no winner in conflicts because everyone involved either got angry or hurt. Conflicts always start from anger and disagreements and end with someone's feelings getting hurt. For example, if two people who care about each other end up having a conflict there is no winner in the situation because both people most likely got hurt in some type of form because they care about each other.
5. My parents expect a lot out of me and expect me to be someone important in the future just like many Chinese cultured parents expect their children to be. They also believe in strict parenting and punishment as well. However, even though Chinese parents are strict they tend to have a close relationship with their children. In my household we are close to an extent. Chinese cultured families have parents that are just as strict as mine yet more engaged with them.